www.globalchange.com Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone payments. Commissions and interest charges on loans. [...] [...more]
Pandora Sees a Big Future: Heir to FM After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public. Read more on New York Times [...more]
Ballmer Bets Microsoft’s Future on the Internet Seventy percent of the 40000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud internet, CEO Steve Ballmer said in a talk to comp sci students at the University of Washington. “A year from now, that will be 90 percent,” he said. Ballmer [...] [...more]
The site’s new co-presidents are overseeing revival plans to keep MySpace from sinking further. View full post on CNET News [...] [...more]
John Mulligan, SEO-PR, interviews Eric Qualman, Global Vice President of Online Marketing for EF Education, at SES New York 2009 about the future of search and social media. Erik describes the future of search as a competition between the major search engines and the various new social media applications such as Twitter and Facebook. As [...] [...more]
Part 2 of my PICNIC 2009 talk on the next 5 years in Social Media. Topics: why the world’s OS is ‘going social’, why conversation and engagement not monolog and control is the only way forward, about the coming ‘extreme Reputation Economy’, why social media = CRM, the shift to open ecosystems rather than closed [...] [...more]
One more piece of news from the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday: Yahoo and Bing are in the midst of discussions to decide the future of Yahoo’s popular Site Explorer SEO tool. Yahoo’s Arnab Bhattacharjee told conference attendees that the two companies are now going through discussions on how to transition [...] [...more]
With major conflicts over data retention, Google executive says the company may stop shooting Street View photos in Europe, [...] [...more]
Building your website with search engine appeal – or search engine optimization – is more art than science but experience has shown that there are some very useful guidelines. The question is, why bother? With effective optimization you’ll attract free website traffic that the search engines will send you. Free traffic goes a long way [...] [...more]
What the deuce? It seems that the new iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 has some very interesting bits of code and UI components that point to a front facing camera – a boolean called hasFrontCamera – and a boolean for a flash LED (not Adobe Flash) called hasFlash. There are also two buttons in the [...] [...more]
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